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How Silhouettes Became “Black”: The Visual Rhetoric of the Harlem Renaissance
Frank Mehring
Description: Circulation
Circulation
Silhouettes confront us in our daily encounters with new digital media, advertisements, computer games, and films. They appear in the outline of company logos on smartphones and iPads, and on movie posters and advertisements in global urban environments. They remind us of the iconic Bat-Signal in the DC Comics series and the silhouetted credit sequences by Maurice...
Author
Frank Mehring
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Copyright© 2017, Terra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.180-216
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00191.006
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19916
Chapter subject tags:Harlem RenaissanceDouglas, AaronReiss, Winold, 1886-1953Walker, Kara Elizabeth

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